President Obama has deployed combat troops to central Africa to aid in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army. In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, Obama says 12 troops with "appropriate combat equipment" were deployed on October 12 and approximately 100 in total will be deployed including a second combat team and headquarters, communications and logistics personnel. The forces will provide information and advise and assist "select partner nation forces," Obama explains. The troops will not fight except in self-defense. The full letter is after the jump.

Paging Code Pinkos...paging Code Pinkos....where are you douche bags anyway? We haven't seen any of you commies since Bush left office...what's up wit that? Is it just Republican wars you are against? Must be.....

You said...
“Paging Code Pinkos...paging Code Pinkos....where are you douche bags anyway? We haven’t seen any of you commies since Bush left office...what’s up wit that? Is it just Republican wars you are against? Must be.....”

I’m afraid you are right.

I know an Obamaite who defended BHO’s Libya after condemning GWB’s Iraq

Her reply was BHO means well

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posted on 10/14/2011 11:16:50 AM PDT
by LMAO
("Begging hands and Bleeding hearts will only cry out for more"...Anthem from Rush)

Well, I’ve said a few times here that with Obama I half-expect him to start eating babies when he finally consolidates his power like Dictator-for-Life, Emporer Idi Amin DaDa....drum roll.....only now he’s setting up his retirement home, I guess. Dictator-for-Life Emporer Barak ‘Idi Amin’ Hussein DaDa....

I have been to some of the crappiest places on the planet and even after that this is one place I would NEVER want go to. I have been right next door and that is close enough. It is perhaps at once the most lawless, illogical, emotionally charged, mindless, gruesome, dangerous places on the planet. It is better left strictly alone by anyone not willing to be come as absolutely ruthless as you can possibly imagine.

This is a place we should stay completely away from, hands down it is a no win proposition.

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posted on 10/14/2011 11:28:19 AM PDT
by Sequoyah101
(Half the people are below average.)

Uh Folks, the Lord’s Resistance Army are not Christians. Look it up. Joseph Kony is its leader. The day someone takes him out is the day there will be cause for celebration in all of central Africa. Don’t disseminate wrong information.

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posted on 10/14/2011 11:37:15 AM PDT
by tenger
(It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for. -Will Rogers)

There was actually some part of the budget bill passed in the 2009-2010 session that provided money for humanitarian relief for this area. I’m not sure how the money has been spent to date or how much of it has been spent, but I assume this letter was sent to Boehner (pronounced Bay-ner, digger) because the funds were in that bill, although there was no indication that the money was to be used for military intervention.

And if he has 100 combat troops (plus their logistical support), he’s not planning on having them simply hand out relief supplies. Obama regards the US military as his personal hit squad, and I’m sure the Muslims have appealed for help in this case and he’s coming through with it.

That’s not to support the LRA, incidentally; it is a vicious, violent cult run by a psychopathic “prophet” and while its “resistance” is mostly against Muslims, it also attacks Christians, although its “prophet” originally saw himself fighting against the Muslims. But I don’t think our military intervention is warranted.

That is not what is happening over in Uganda, and Kony and the LRA are not Christians, though they claim to be. They are murderers, torturers, and rapists, that have no political goal except their own. They fight Muslims and Christians with equal venom.

Kony gathers around himself superstitious animist, pagan and Christian illiterates who follow him, personally. He is not fighting Muslims any more than Christians or other religious beliefs. He has been creating havoc in the country for 20 years, and is a very bad soul.

Don’t let people mislead you into thinking this guy is a Christian. He is not a crusader for anyone but himself.

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posted on 10/14/2011 11:49:25 AM PDT
by LachlanMinnesota
(Which are you? A producer, a looter, or a moocher of wealth?)

Do we have any links(not liberal) that could explain this group more fully? Regardless...I don’t believe we should be sending troups all over the planet on ‘humanitarian’ missions. This is what the liberals want to do under the guise of humanitarian gestures but it is actually all explained in Agenda 21. It’s the new world order that the marxist and commies want to use. Next stop....ISRAEL.

Don’t be fooled by any of it folks.

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posted on 10/14/2011 11:51:41 AM PDT
by penelopesire
(TIME FOR A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!)

My daughter lived in Uganda and Rwanda and is fully familiar with the fear and trepidation the population lives under as a result of this group. They do not speak ill of him because he has informants all around the country, and people disappear forever after speaking ill of him.

Kony is a very superstitious sort who gathers around him animist, pagan and Christians who are disillusioned and mostly uneducated and illiterate. He is a cult following that has been involved in violence for years.

This man is not about ideology, he is about himself, rape, murder, torture, and kidnapping. The world would be better off without him.

I don’t know whether Obama’s actions are good or not, but anyone who stops the demon is a good thing.

Neither my daughter or I are liberals in any sense of the word.

Remember, this is the part of the world (Rwanda) where over one million people were killed under the Clinton Administration in the genocide, while the UN sat by and watched.

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posted on 10/14/2011 11:59:09 AM PDT
by LachlanMinnesota
(Which are you? A producer, a looter, or a moocher of wealth?)

Our Idiot-In-Chief is trying to spread us thin, force instability within the ranks (DADT-repeal), cut our military funding and piss-off as many countries as possible - all at the same time. Can someone please, PLEASE, explain to me how this helps America in any way, shape or form?

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posted on 10/14/2011 12:01:44 PM PDT
by ExTxMarine
(PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)

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